Spring??

Today is the first time I have been to the plot since my last post! It's been cold and wet (mainly) and I've also been very busy. It started hailing as I left ...

These are a few calabrese (broccoli) seedlings that I was given, and that I planted out today. I put some lime and Blood, fish and bone fertiliser onto the soil, and dug it in, then put in the seedlings very firmly, watered them well, and put some slug pellets round them before covering with a green mesh to keep the birds off.

I also planted some potatoes. These are a slug resistant variety - last year there was a lot of slug damage on my potatoes - called Sarpo Mira. These also apparently have good resistance to blight, and are very tasty. We shall see!

I said last time (19 March) that I had made up my hot bed. Well, I planted some lettuce, beetroot and carrot seed, and these have now come up, hooray! Hopefully, I will be picking some early crops at the end of May or in June. Everything of course depends on the weather ....